1.0 "It's a Trap" Tyrliths Endgame Trapper - HC+ VIABLE! "WE ARE FINE"!

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TLDR

Hi,
i would love to share with you my trapper, and the amazing fun i have playing it in endgame. This build is new, and is succeptable to changes as i figure them out along the way.

propper sequence Curse Ele weakness>Shock Nova prolif "trip shock">ice nova "extended slow/Freeze due to shock" >fire "Boom or Burn" > > repeat > start sequence on new pack

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THE BUILD PHILOSOPHY AND CLASS CHOICE

Traps scale with spelldamage, "excluding beartrap" there are three ways to obtain spelldamage in this game to make traps scale.

The first being gear, the second being passive nodes and the third iron will support gem.

The idea of this build is to rely on the latter two the least, so you can stack survivability/mana regen.

i found shadow/templar to be the most reasonable base classes to pull this build off.

you generaly want to avoid witch starter, it has the extra es nodes but you will have to track both to templar/shadow and the scion basenodes.

This build is as VIABLE as a sporker, but plays LESS boring

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THE DAMAGE AND HOW IT STACKS

Step one, the debuff
Cursing Ele weakness!
While running EE, the maximum negative res one could give theoreticly with EE is -150, this means you basicly do 400% (based on default 50% resist 50-0=100%more dmg (200% total), then folowed by another 50% (300%) and another 50% totalling the 150%- for 400% multiplier) more damage to the debuffed mobs due to lowered resist
Both curses and penetration gems can reduce the resistance of a target below 0%.

Step two, The multiplier
The main damage source of this build comes from aplying "shock stacks" to large packs, directly scaling following traps by adding 120% damage(multiplying dmg by 220% , nerfed to 190% dmg in 1.0), cursing it prior to this will likely prolong your shock duration.

the objective is to shock here, not really to do the utmust damage yet.
so istead of lightning trap we use shock nova+Trap (Quality chance to shock), because of the behavior of the trap gem, you will end up with 3 unqiue casts that can each crit. further increasing the odds of shocking on top of shock nova+added lightning

Then we want to proliferate these shockstacks onto the entire pack of mobs, basicly debuffing ALL of the mobs


Step Three, Control and damage
Based on having both effects applied earlier, we would want some control and dps.
i found the best solution is to use ice nova+ Trap, freeze isnt so required but due to the previously applied effects once can count on crits freezing for considerable duration, and normal hits for chilling extended periods.

You can opt for coldsnap, but i find that without prolif it is rather lackluster and i simply prefer having cold pen.


Step four!, the boom
so now your mobs are either frozen/chilled giving you more control on placing your next set of traps to do utter devestation.

Fire trap + Burning damage is your friend, what you dont kill with this, will most likely die from burning damage.

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NAPKIN MATH pre 1.0 "90%"shock dmg

Calcing the ACTUAL damage "math involved al be it napkin math"

My assumption here is that mobs have 50% RESIST, not assumed with 75% map ress affix
your mob is both cursed, and shocked "where the shock attack previously gave you the -50 fire you need and that ALL three traps explode before a recast


FireTrapFireDMG*4*2.2*3 = noncritdmgAVG
noncritdmgAVG*Mult/Critchance = CritdmgAVG
noncritdmgAVG+critdmgAVG = AVG tooltip dmg



7000 AVG( mindmg+maxdmg/2 ) Dmg raw fire dmg on fire trap *4 (400% due to ele weakness "28.000")
*2.2 (Shockstacks "61600" in 1.0 this number will change to *1.9) per trap,
remember we are using multitraps so the single output non crit for the entire throw is 3*61600 = 184.800 per throw of firetraps,
that is based on all 3 traps firing with trigger range and is EXCLUDING the burning dmg effect


now to calculate Avg Crit+Multiplier dmg lets say we have 20% chance to crit "not hard to obtain" and 300% "crit mult"


firstly we calculate the multiplier dmg, wich is for this napkin version 184.800*3 + 184.800
or dmg*4 in short wich is "739200" on avg, 1/5 will be crit so 739200/5 = "147840"<- this is the important bit we add to the non crit
dps, remember we had 184.800 fire dmg, add the crit avg wich is 147840 the actual "explosion" of firetrap does an avg of 332.640 dmg,


agian excluding the Burn from firetrap and the crit wich yould significantly scale damage done even further. "the burn will be based of the HIGHEST crit done by 1/3 of your traps, "so burn dmg is based off 739200/3 because its only the single burn effect "they do not stack" having 3 traps crit, simply means the highest source of burn dmg get's applied and the other two sources get overwritten. so the burn dmg on the full 4 seconds is 4Sec*0.333~ of 739200/3= 328533.333~ or 82133.33325 DPS per sec burn dmg



also, i know im calculating crit for all 3 traps, and i know they all have a unique chance to crit however, the AVG. does not change. each trap still has 20% chance to crit, so grouping them together means , i'm excluding "4" other casts of 12 traps of crits. and granting 3 traps to crit "Some RNG involved."

As a downside, having a mob "miss" two of your traps could potentially Reduce your dps by 200%

i just wanted to show the "potency" of reducing Res, before i actually showed you the tooltips of the spec in screendump.

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MEDIA

Trap Tooltips, due note these tooltips DPS are off by alot, due to the inherant castspeed of shock nova and ice nova "look at the cast per second" , the most important things to note are the damage ranges.

Ice nova +RF"24" +misc



Shock nova +RF"24" +misc



Fire trap +RF"24" +misc


These video's Do not do the build justice, they are outdated, and slow played to showcase the effect of shockstacking


Shock nova > Fire (NO RF, else it dies too fast XD it's litterally overkill on docks, i also disabled to be able to sit back and tank a bit to take my time and display)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3fsmuBHBBU&feature=youtu.be

Shock nova > ice nova (no RF, shocked blue pack at the end, then oneshot with ice nova)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpfHwZgOFc&feature=youtu.be


Now for the SERIOUS STUFFS

-20 Mageara faceroll.

http://www.twitch.tv/tyrlith/c/3125441

Magaera Tempest chains faceroll

http://www.twitch.tv/tyrlith/c/3125505

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BANDITS

The idea is to take as much skillpoints as you can. so preferable Kill ALL bandits.
the one single alternative is to take the MANA reward from normal, because it simply makes it easier to deal with mana management and can be worth the point investment

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GEAR

Firstly i will introduce you to my current Gear and Gem setup
Ignore my flask rolls for now, havent found the need to actually ROLL them propperly past removing RF



Alternative gear requirements, "cheap" Ci version/lowlife version(just a list of items, mainly because i dont have the required items myself)

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SKILL TREE

The 120 and subsequent lvl targets , can be leveled as pure trap withotu the need to reroll much "just life/ES conversion"


100


90


80 - life > es conversion if you have the gear, else delay


70


60


50


40


30
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20
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10
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The cheap Version, follows almost same build progression opts for CI around LVL 67

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PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

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REASONS FOR LOW LIFE

1. RF
2. Pain attunement.
3. Easier tie in to trap nodes.
4. easier to tie in resource cost with mana regen whilst running multiple aura's

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THE BENEFITS

1. Discharge like burst damage, at no risk of reflects!
2. party play/solo play!
3. option to run HIGH mf
4. artic armor, positive while moving with correct gear low cost while standing still throwing traps.. no downsides for running it
5. -150% mob resists with cursing! this makes things go boom
6. Shock nova prolif, to instant shockstack.

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THE DOWNSIDES

1. No regen = NO nothing
2. Half regen = Still nothing, mana regen helps a bit here.
3. the usual no bloodmagic
4. can be hard to maintain Rf, dousing pot to control ES is manditory, some skill involved to micro manage "gifts from above does ALOT to fix these issues no longer a significant problem
5. single target is rough, harder to maintain or apply shockstacks or trigger 3 traps
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OUTLOOK ON 1.0

1. Announced 30 new trap/totem nodes.
2. No reliance on vaal pact, seems to be a build that is 1.0 proof
3. On hit Ele cursing should work fine in 1.0, removing the need to manually curse

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MY CONCLUSION

its super active play cycling 3 traps and managing RF/ES pool whilst dodging attacks. and the ebst fun i've had in POE since i started,

The costs are up there, but lower builds are possible using springleaf

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1.0

Hi i grabbed the leak skilltree and planned a 120 nodes build with photoshop.

this is the results.

Gains,

+1% life regen<- good
+trap nodes, including trap immunity <- good.

Loses,
- some strength, requiring me to use atrizi over eye. "not a big problem."
- Crit, in favor of the new trap nodes

heres the actual edit, on top of the tree with remarks on the new nodes
reminder, this isnt the finalised tree, some changes might occur.

Warning large image, dont moobile data might be expensive

I am interested in seeing the shock nova with multiple traps because I am confused as to what it does? Wouldn't you wanted Incresed aoe? I may be wrong but I need tot see it because if it gets shock stacks I may work this into my build I am running. I will wait for the vids as to see what the skills do. I won't comment on the build or item choice because I don't fully like them, not only that but I play ONS so much different. Gl with the ideas.

i need time to do a high qual full 76-77 map run with people. my PC isnt neceserrily the best for recording it either "not during 6 party play" and currently do not posses any maps significant enough to solo and display

As for increased aoe, ive considered adding inc AOE to my firetrap/Lightning trap, ice nova comes with inc Aoe on Qual.



Here's the Rough idea, in both cases, im not even able to complete the full 3 trap sequence without RF, because stuff just dies. ill try to find mobs high enough to survive the triple sequence, or ask some buds to come idle on my docks to inflate hp.. for now this will have to do

Added to OP, bear with me i trimmed the waste, still encoding

Shock nova > Fire (NO RF, else it dies too fast XD it's litterally overkill on docks, i also disabled to be able to sit back and tank a bit to take my time and display)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3fsmuBHBBU&feature=youtu.be

Shock nova > ice nova (no RF, shocked blue pack at the end, then oneshot with ice nova)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpfHwZgOFc&feature=youtu.be

edit op, noticed my maligros wasnt linked


to be replaced at some point with 250+es gloves


Quick docks clr. using Rf, balancing between pack clears when needed

currently encoding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5vDYw4p1dM&feature=youtu.be

Can you post your stats as dps on traps, ES regen, mana regen

So it's a softcore build right? can it be risky to play in an hardcore League?

Why the sunblast? is it really necessary for this build? i believe sunblas is better with lightning trap, a shock nova trap can be used without it, right?

Your right sunblast isnt as manditory as i lead to believe.
but its a nice item to have with mana regen on it and trap dmg/light radius

the tooltip's are rather deceptive though this is based off my lvl 77 shadow

fire pen/light pen Etc add alot of dmg done when lowering resists.

current tooltip

fire trap 4867.8 At lvl 17 gems with no qual
shock nova trap 3595 at 17-15 lvl range with only qual on shock for nova atm
ice nova trap 1562 at lvl 15-17 range skillgems no qual


EE adds -50 res + the additional penetration gems im linking going to link to it
and curses add some also.

"ive been considering removing multi from ice nova and adding inc aoe" just so i can dual multi+1 ice nova in one wave


206,7 ES regen sec / recharge around 2,5k
7709 ES

mana regen currently 118, going to expand this by exalting mana regen on my wand and taking some more mana nodes


This build is pretty safe, if you CHOOSE not to enable RF.
as seen by the vid's the damage output is significant enough with my lvl gems to onehsot mobs on docks on the second trap wave even on my weakest trap ice nova.

posted addequate build header ;)

blew 65 ex in eternal/ex on wand, got 21% crit mult .

had to roll over 16% castspeed / 8% castspeed once :\

harsh decision.. still not happy with it.. have an imprint in the end ideally i want mana regen

Have you tried using cold snap instead of ice nova?

HC / onslaugh viable?